Edgewood Academy baseball coach Bobby Carr earned his 500th career victory Monday, 7-6 at home over Glenwood. Now in his 13th season with the Wildcats, Carr's record at Edgewood stands at 405-93.

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When Bobby Carr arrived at Edgewood Academy in 2002, one of the first things he did was construct a new backstop for Billy Skinner Field.

While his intent was simply to improve the facilities, the symbolic gesture was to build on the foundation of a championship program that had been started a year earlier by Terry Adkins.

"There used to just be a chain-link backstop," the Edgewood football and baseball coach recalled. "The first thing we did was put the cinder blocks up (for the backstop), and we've done something different every year. Me and our (then) junior high coach, Eddie Ziegler, did it." ...